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| Newbie Question: MM v. MC cartridges? There are quite a few MM cartridges out there. In addition to those cited by Dirtyraggamuffin, Goldring, Garrott Brothers, Musicmaker, Roksan, Audio Technica & Ortofon make some very nice & very price-worthy MM cartridges. W.r.t. MC cartri... | |
| Suggestion please: How to improve sound. I might be repeating what has already been mentioned by other members but what you can do to optimize your system is(1) work on treating your room. There is some excellent info on the WWW. Use your favourite search engine & type "Jon Risch". Y... | |
| Which Passive Preamp --Bent Audio or Placette ? Sorry to throw in yet another passive xformer-based preamp but I feel that it might be a useful input.I have heard Antique Sound Labs T1-DT ($400) passive preamp & it's sound was really excellent. We were listening to some single-driver speake... | |
| Explanation of one bit conversions 1-bit DACs belong to a class of DACs called "oversampled converters" or "delta-sigma converters" that take advantage of the fact that sampling a music signal more frequently w/ lower resolution is equivalent to sampling the same signal infrequentl... | |
| Strange Tonearm Tweak. Long Well........I finally got hold of some lead bullet fishing weights (the ones that weigh 11.42 gms) & drilled into them 1/4", as TWL himself did. Since I use a Benz L2 (static compliance 15um/mN) I chopped off the tips of these weights & br... | |
| Gryphon gets no press, but is great. Hi Lrsky,Thanks! Wasn't trying to showy or any such thing; rather, called it like I heard it. I was truely moved by its refined sound. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listened to a wide variety of stuff FWIW:-Brubeck - Brubeck plays Bernstein Plays BrubeckSpygro Gyra - Access All AreasChristopher Cross - Chistopher CrossMoody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves FavourSlipknot1: Am thinking of getting "The Koln Conc... | |
| Question about Burr Brown DACs Agreed with Audioengr, Slappy & Sean.In general, semiconductor manuf. add I.C.s to their portfolio all the time so that their product offerings always provide the best profit margin to them. I just looked @ Burr-Brown's website. I don't see th... | |
| The Best Live album I would recommend Keith Jarrett "The Koln Concert" ECM (German label), 1975. Heard it about 2 weeks ago at a fellow audiophile's house on a electrostatic hybrid speaker. Mind blowing!! | |
| convergent stereo amp Can't tell you anything about the SL1 Ultimate from personal experience but only what Ken Stevens told me in a phone conversation with him. The major upgrade in the Ultimate over the Sig Mk3 was the marked improvement in timbral accuracy. He accom... | |
| Essential TT/Cartridge Set up tools Thanks for the explanation, Doug.Yes, the fellow on VA was quite ingenious! | |
| Essential TT/Cartridge Set up tools 4yanx,Makes sense now! Thanx for the explanation.Buscis2,Thanx for the reco of those mu-metal sheets. | |
| Essential TT/Cartridge Set up tools Hey Doug,>>You'll have to devise some doohickey to weigh on the plane of the record anyway. That >>should keep the scale and cartridge apart.Can you explain how measuring on the plane of the record keeps the cart. & scale apart?? T... | |
| Dynaudio Audience 52 SE or B&W 705 I, too, would highly recommend the Dynaudio 52SE over the B&W model.I recently heard the Dynaudio 52 (not SE version) with a Cayin TA-30 (30W/ch using EL34 output tubes). The CDP was a Cambridge Audio (forgot model number). The Cayin-Dynaudio ... | |
| Initial Impressions of Von Schweikert VR2 Ozzy62,Good to read that you like the VR2s. How do they compare to your newly acquired Alons? Are you willing to exchange the Alons for the VR2s?? :-) |